The August 17 2024 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes
You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
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- Across
- 1a Ireland’s second-best-selling musical act after U2
- 5a Forsythia, for one
- 10a Verbally waver
- 13a Something shown to a rude houseguest
- 14a Mistreatment
- 15a “___ Agua Para Chocolate” (hit 1992 foreign-language film)
- 16a One might clean up lots of toys
- 18a Potatoes, in Indian cuisine
- 19a Grown in ___ (brand of frozen French fries)
- 20a Reason one might read a “Speed Hump” sign and laugh
- 22a One might be “slippery”
- 23a Epic backdrop, maybe
- 25a Some skintight clothing
- 26a Coal miner’s discovery
- 28a Josh who voices Olaf in “Frozen”
- 30a Initial tentative attempt
- 31a Nonstop flight?
- 35a Jamie Lee Curtis or Neve Campbell, notably
- 37a Really loses one’s cool
- 39a Planned Parenthood doc
- 42a Often-bracketed bit of Latin
- 43a Mark as important, in a way
- 45a You! All of you!
- 48a Lunes, e.g.
- 50a The “1” in 8-8-1, e.g.
- 51a “Hold please”?
- 53a River through Glasgow
- 55a What lions can do that pumas cannot
- 56a “A deal’s a deal!”
- 58a ThinkPads, originally
- 59a ___ anglaise (rich custard)
- 60a Survey unit
- 61a Cry for help
- 62a Toaster’s opening
- 63a Randall’s elder daughter on “This Is Us”
- Down
- 1d Goes down the drain, perhaps
- 2d Thinks (on)
- 3d Stretcher bearers?
- 4d Frustrated cry
- 5d Portuguese title
- 6d “True Detective” and “The Wire,” for two
- 7d One-named poet from the 13th century
- 8d App audience
- 9d Sea bed?
- 10d Like Medina, Saudi Arabia, vis-à-vis Medina, Ohio
- 11d So-called “king of the Egyptian gods”
- 12d Rustic
- 15d Scouting gatherings
- 17d Spat
- 21d “Get me?”
- 24d Match up
- 27d Fashions out of whatever’s lying around
- 29d Sends to hell
- 32d Worked on a collapsible table, say
- 33d Hit Netflix show whose pilot episode is titled “Red Light, Green Light”
- 34d Stanley of “Julie & Julia”
- 36d Low-cost lager from Anheuser-Busch, familiarly
- 38d Eleven in Las Vegas
- 39d God slain by his brother, then resurrected by his wife
- 40d Animal also known as a pygmy chimpanzee
- 41d Sparkles
- 44d ___ Puffs
- 46d In Buffalo, it’s a faux pas to order this with Buffalo wings
- 47d Buttress, with “up”
- 49d Frustrated cry
- 52d Eschew the subway, say
- 54d Something that’s good to do a 180 on?
- 57d These, in French